Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 34
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Title | Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 34 |
Date | 1861 |
Coverage-Spatial | Springfield (Ill.) |
Photographer | German, Christopher S., active 19th century |
Subject | |
Description | A photograph made by C. S. German in Springfield, January 26, 1861. The original negative of cabinet size is in the Lincoln Collection of Dr. Herbert Wells Fay of Springfield. The portrait for the original ten-dollar greenback was engraved from this photograph. |
Original Medium | negative |
Type | |
Repository | Illinois History and Lincoln Collections |
Collection Title | The Faces of Abraham Lincoln: The Meserve Lincoln Photographs, 1848-1865 |
Publisher | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library |
Rights | No Copyright - United States |
Rights Description | This image is in the public domain. Descriptions are in copyright, reprinted courtesy of the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation. |
Collection | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content) |
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Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 34 |